In today’s New York Times, Angelina Jolie shares that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning that a specific gene had left her with an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. After three months of medical procedures, that number has plummeted to 5 percent. Jolie explains the importance of gene testing, the advances in breast reconstruction, the benefit of a partner’s support, and the strength she feels after making a dramatic decision for herself and her children.
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In today’s New York Times, Angelina Jolie shares that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning that a specific gene had left her with an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. After three months of medical procedures, that number has plummeted to 5 percent.

Jolie explains the importance of gene testing, the advances in breast reconstruction, the benefit of a partner’s support, and the strength she feels after making a dramatic decision for herself and her children.

Source: The New York Times

Roger Ebert: A Leave of Presence Forty-six years ago today, Roger Ebert became the movie critic at the Chicago Sun-Times. Despite dramatic health challenges, he last year he wrote 306 movie reviews, the most of his career. A new battle with cancer has emerged, and Ebert is forced to slow down. But he remains committed to penning selected movie reviews and ensuring that his lifetime of film-related content lives on in the digital space. I applaud anyone with such a desire to create, build and share, whether it’s writing, art, music, whatever. And as much as technology gets abused, it allows us to do those things infinitely easier than ever before in history. Also see: RogerEbert.com | EbertDigital.com
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Roger Ebert: A Leave of Presence

Forty-six years ago today, Roger Ebert became the movie critic at the Chicago Sun-Times. Despite dramatic health challenges, he last year he wrote 306 movie reviews, the most of his career. A new battle with cancer has emerged, and Ebert is forced to slow down. But he remains committed to penning selected movie reviews and ensuring that his lifetime of film-related content lives on in the digital space. I applaud anyone with such a desire to create, build and share, whether it’s writing, art, music, whatever. And as much as technology gets abused, it allows us to do those things infinitely easier than ever before in history.

Also see: RogerEbert.com | EbertDigital.com

Rex Reed’s “Rock of Ages” review for the New York Observer will make everything you’ve done in your life seem like an enormous success. That’s assuming you’ve never had a hand in a “Rock ‘n roll clusterfuck about as appealing as venues’ piss-stained urinals” or something “without a shred of freshness, insight, cleverness or coherence to be detected within a two-mile radius.” Despite warning from Reed that this “assault on the IQ is where people with self-respect should draw the line,” I’m still gonna see it Tuesday afternoon, when I can chill in an empty theater.
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Rex Reed’s “Rock of Ages” review for the New York Observer will make everything you’ve done in your life seem like an enormous success.

That’s assuming you’ve never had a hand in a “Rock ‘n roll clusterfuck about as appealing as venues’ piss-stained urinals” or something “without a shred of freshness, insight, cleverness or coherence to be detected within a two-mile radius.” Despite warning from Reed that this “assault on the IQ is where people with self-respect should draw the line,” I’m still gonna see it Tuesday afternoon, when I can chill in an empty theater.

Sasha Baron Cohen, dressed as the Dictator, dumps Kim Jong-il’s ashes all over Ryan Seacrest.

“Now if someone asks you what you are wearing, say Kim Jong-il!”

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